New solo jams from Chris Bush of Caboladies in an edition of 75 copies. Melodically complex structures of synth tone with layers of fuzz and confusion cloaking soaring harmonies and epic drones. Even better than his recent CD-R on Robert Beatty’s label.

Edition of 100 copies double cassette in moulded plastic boxes from the duo of ‘Dino St. Clair’ (aka Brett Naucke of Face Worker/Catholic Tapes) and ‘Nic Lamb’ (aka Chris Bush of Caboladies/Flower Man). Dual digital synth jams that move from ethereal/cosmic tones through heavier pulse-based wipe-outs.

Solo synth album from Chris Bush aka Flower Man, a member of Caboladies, on Daniel Lopatin’s (Oneohtrix Point Never/Infinity Window) new label. Edition of only 50 copies and already sold out at source. Exotic Cameo has an emotional weight that’s lacking in some of the recent 80s/new age synth experiments, with a feel for arcs of lonely melody and beautiful night-time tonal constructs that at points sounds like some of Joe Meek’s eeriest material. In between the sad chorales there are pulsing spaceship tones, constructions that marry 20^th century compositional modes with delicately constructed homemade DIY and beautiful, gossamer-light drone pieces that work in layers of translucent harmony. Fantastic. Full colour covers, black on black discs, highly recommended. “Occasionally a synth record comes around that changes the game for me -- a while back it was my post facto discovery of Suzanne Ciani's Seven Waves -- a record that brought a level of emotionality to synth music that was rare in the Trancealot days of post-Berlin School new age.Exotic Cameo carries none of the genre-specific traits of Seven Waves, but the sincerity and natural weirdness that drives the record is much the same, putting it leagues above its contemporary brethren. If the current climate of out music here in the US feels decidedly post-noise, the overriding vibe polarizes new age kraut jams against lo fi pop -- the problem with a lot of it being the nostalgia redux factor tends more towards surfaces than substances. Enter Chris Bush aka Flower Man (also a member of Caboladies) who has constructed a bedroom synth classic with Exotic Cameo -- one that merges the lucid grey/bent melodicism of Bruce Haack, Claude Larson, and Enno Velthuys with a heavy dose of Radiophonic Workshop-style library record aerobics. The overall effect is that of a nightmare Jim Henson may have had one night -- scenario: spacing out at the townhouse with a glass of scotch on his knee/tube of ash between his fingers, listening to Nic Raicevic's Beyond The End, perhaps dreaming of an old flame or a pair of eyes. Nostalgic yes certainly, but conflated and made bleak in such a way that speaks directly from Flower Man's inner repository... a strange and dreary trip that takes the voyeur through a grayscale city of upside down salixi and softcore store fronts, only to roll credits with a haunting sonata that aptly offers no resolve. Flower Man is here.” – Daniel Lopatin.

Excellent solo album from one half of Caboladies, Eric Lanham. More pastoral and dreamtone-focussed than the mothership, Carl Calm focuses on lugubrious drone work that touches on UK experiments like Matthew Bower’s Sunroof, Spacemen 3 circa Dreamweapon/An Evening Of Contemporary Sitar Music, The Chalk/Ora cultus et al with gentle comedown melodies and rippling keyboards and percussion. This one really bridges DIY homemade synth stylings and zone-out 20^th century electronics and makes for some of the most luminal psychedelia to come out of the Caboladies camp. A  keeper. 

Limited split cassette from Flower Man aka Chris Bush of Caboladies and Rene Hell. The Flower Man side features some cracked electronics, with glitch-riddled rhythms and bubbling synth intimating otherworldly melodies via a disorientating series of aural cut-ups and a bunch of hypnotic, almost Maryanne Amacher-scale third ear soundings. The Hell side is more symphonic and dramatic, with hissing drum machines and eerie soundtrack style keyboards giving way to simple Cluster-style melodies. 

Fantastic collection of stray tracks from the Caboladies trio – Chris Bush, Eric Lanham and Ben Zoeller - that mops up the best of the material contributed to various cassettes and CD-Rs over the past few years. Features “Psychic Birthmark” from the 2007 CD-R of the same name on Smooth Tapes, “Aquarium Railroad” from the 2008 Students Of Decay Earth Canal CD-R, “Caught In Cradle Flypaper” from Arbor’s 2008 cassette, Waterslide Mines, “Giddy Atonement” from 2008’s Burning Portal Bathtubs” cassette on Smooth Tapes and “Body Tides” from 2007’s Body Tides CD-R on Mountaain. All tracks remastered by Pete Swanson. Some fantastic minimalist electronics here that have a crude DIY edge that touches on aspects of primitive UK circuit benders like Storm Bugs et al while factoring in psychedelic restatements of reductive 20^th century avant classicism and some fully punked kosmische synth. Edition of 500 copies with double sided poster.